{"id":201256,"date":"2026-07-20T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=201256"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:29:51","slug":"strategy-mstr-sells-263-5-million-in-mstr-shares-skips-bitcoin-purchase-as-usd-reserve-tops-3-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=201256","title":{"rendered":"Strategy (MSTR) Sells $263.5 Million in MSTR Shares, Skips Bitcoin Purchase as USD Reserve Tops $3.2 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Strategy (MSTR) Sells $263.5 Million in MSTR Shares, Skips Bitcoin Purchase as USD Reserve Tops $3.2 Billion<\/a><\/p>\n

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Strategy sold about $263.5 million worth of MSTR shares last week and made no bitcoin purchases, according to an 8-K filing<\/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.<\/p>\n

The bitcoin treasury company reported the sale of 2,732,318 MSTR shares between July 13 and July 19. Proceeds went toward a $225 million boost to the firm\u2019s U.S. dollar reserve, which reached $3.225 billion as of July 19. Strategy bought no bitcoin, sold no bitcoin, and repurchased no shares under its buyback programs across the period.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s bitcoin stack holds at 843,775 BTC, a position worth around $54.7 billion at current prices. Strategy acquired the coins for about $63.7 billion, including fees and expenses, at an average price of $75,476 per bitcoin, according to co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor.<\/p>\n

That total represents around 4% of bitcoin\u2019s 21 million supply cap. At present prices, the position carries about $9 billion in paper losses.<\/p>\n

The dollar reserve has climbed across a run of similar weeks. A prior filing put the balance near $3 billion after a $467 million share sale, and the fresh $225 million addition marks a continued tilt toward cash as management builds a buffer against the firm\u2019s debt load.<\/p>\n

Strategy\u2019s bitcoin buying pause<\/h2>\n

The pause extends a pattern. Strategy has leaned on dollar accumulation over fresh bitcoin buys across recent weeks, a shift from the aggressive purchases that have reshaped corporate finance<\/a> and defined much of its history.<\/p>\n

Saylor posted another Strategy bitcoin acquisition tracker chart to X<\/a> on Sunday with the caption \u201cWhat\u2019s next?\u201d Posts of that kind have preceded acquisition announcements the next day, though the firm\u2019s approach has varied across recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Company leadership frames the sales as a matter of balance-sheet strength rather than retreat. President and CEO Phong Le told<\/a> Bloomberg TV last week that Strategy intends to remain a long-term bitcoin buyer. Le said the firm would begin weighing risks tied to its debt in the event bitcoin dropped to the $8,000 to $10,000 range, and described the balance sheet as secure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The stance matches Saylor\u2019s repeated pledge that Strategy will keep buying bitcoin<\/a> for years, a message he has held even through defenses of potential BTC sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saylor turned his attention to Bitcoin\u2019s protocol over the weekend. He published a 110-point essay, \u201c110 Reasons BIP 110 Is a Bad Idea,\u201d his most detailed case against the proposed soft fork that seeks to limit arbitrary data on the network.<\/p>\n

The essay arrived ahead of BIP-110\u2019s mandatory signaling window, which opens in early August. Miner support sits at 0.86% per the proposal\u2019s public monitor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitcoin mining pool Foundry has asked miners to vote on the measure<\/a>, and industry voices have flagged the fork as one on track to fail<\/a> given weak signaling.<\/p>\n

Analyst reaction to Strategy\u2019s dollar buildup has been warm. JPMorgan analysts called<\/a> the larger cash reserves and improving institutional demand in bitcoin futures \u201cencouraging signs\u201d for the bitcoin outlook, even as spot bitcoin ETF flows stay volatile.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Strategy sits atop a crowded field. Bitcoin Treasuries data counts 197 public companies with some form of bitcoin acquisition model, a tally that pushed corporate bitcoin holdings to a record high<\/a>. Tether-backed Twenty One, Metaplanet, MARA, and the Adam Back and Cantor Fitzgerald-backed Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company round out the top five, with 43,514 BTC, 43,000 BTC, 36,303 BTC, and 30,021 BTC.<\/p>\n

The stock has struggled. MSTR fell 4% across last week and closed Friday at $94.85, a drop of 38.6% year-to-date. Bitcoin gained around 1% over the same stretch, a split that widens the gap between the firm\u2019s treasury value and its market capitalization.<\/p>\n

Strategy shares were up 2% in pre-market trading. <\/p>\n

This post Strategy (MSTR) Sells $263.5 Million in MSTR Shares, Skips Bitcoin Purchase as USD Reserve Tops $3.2 Billion<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Sells $263.5 Million in MSTR Shares, Skips Bitcoin Purchase as USD Reserve Tops $3.2 Billion Strategy sold about $263.5 million worth of MSTR shares last week and made no bitcoin purchases, according to an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The bitcoin treasury company reported the sale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":201257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}